Toy with tipping load carrier

Abstract

A toy has a body and a tipping load carrier which is rotatably mounted in the body about a horizontal axis for rotation between a load-receiving position and at least one tipping position. The body has a planar upper surface portion. The load carrier has a planar lower surface portion with which the load carrier, when in its load-receiving position, is resting on the planar upper surface portion of the body. Each of two mutually aligned pivot pins defining said axis is fixed to one of the load carrier and the body. The pivot pins are mounted each in a vertically elongate hole which is formed in the other of the load carrier and the body.

I claim: 
     
       1. A toy having a body and a tipping load carrier comprising a planar bottom surface, said load carrier being rotatably mounted in the body about a horizontal axis for rotation between a load-receiving position and at least one tipping position, characterized in that the body has a planar upper surface with which the load carrier, when in its load-receiving position, is resting on said planar upper surface of the body, that each of two mutually aligned pivot pins defining said axis is fixed to one of the load carrier and the body, and that the pivot pins are mounted and guided each in a vertically elongate hole formed in the other of the load carrier and the body such that when said load carrier is rotated by hand, the load carrier is first raised with respect to said body, the pivot pins are moved within said vertically elongate holes and when an edge of the planar bottom surface has passed a position beneath the axis of rotation defined by the pivot pins, the load carrier is again lowered with respect to said body during the continued rotation of the container to the tipping position. 
     
     
       2. Toy as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the two pivot pins are fixedly connected to the load carrier and that the two holes are formed in two opposite portions of the body between which the load carrier is disposed. 
     
     
       3. Toy as claimed in any one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the body is part of a toy wagon having a longitudinal dimension and that said axis extends in said longitudinal dimension of the wagon.